Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment (Trade Descriptions for Sheep) Order 2019

I, David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, make the following order.

Dated 20 March 2019

David Littleproud

Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Orders 2005

1  Name

  This instrument is the Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment (Trade Descriptions for Sheep) Order 2019.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under regulation 3 of the Export Control (Orders) Regulations 1982.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Orders 2005

1  Suborder 8.1 (definition of lamb)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

lamb means meat derived from an ovine animal that:

 (a) is under 12 months of age; or

 (b) does not have any permanent incisor teeth in wear.

2  Suborder 8.1 (definition of mutton)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

mutton means meat derived from:

 (a) a female ovine animal that has at least one permanent incisor tooth in wear; or

 (b) a castrated male ovine animal that:

 (i) has at least one permanent incisor tooth in wear; and

 (ii) shows no evidence of secondary sexual characteristics.

3  Suborder 8.1 (definition of ram)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

ram means meat derived from:

 (a) an entire male ovine animal that:

 (i) has at least one permanent incisor tooth in wear; or

 (ii) shows evidence of secondary sexual characteristics; or

 (b) a castrated male ovine animal that shows evidence of secondary sexual characteristics.

4  At the end of Division V of Part 10

Add:

101  Transitional provisions relating to the Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment (Trade Descriptions for Sheep) Order 2019

  The amendments made by items 1 to 3 of Schedule 1 to the Export Control (Meat and Meat Products) Amendment (Trade Descriptions for Sheep) Order 2019 apply in relation to ovine animals that are slaughtered on or after 1 July 2019.